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FeaturesNov 28th 2021Here are ten books that have stuck in my brain this year. Most of them are children’s books. If you’re not reading children’s lit, you should be. Kidlit authors are (in my humble opinion)...
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A memoir, family history, and cultural rumination on the Japanese internment during WWII from one of America's most gifted writers. FIlled with photographic records and other ephemera, this book is a heartwrenching labor of love that captures the fateful intersection of the personal and the political. Astounding.
There are plenty of novels that are innovative and thoughtful as well as beautifully written. Then there are the books that push the boundaries of what literature can do, books that literally change your DNA as a reader. THE INVENTED PART by Rodrigo Fresan is just one of these. It's almost beyond description, but it fouses on a writer, his sister and the divorce of their parents. And yet, this description is surely a disservice. It's really about books (Tender is The Night, Slaughterhouse-Five, Naked Lunch, plus tons more ) and writers (William Burroughs, John Irving, Philip K Dick plus tons more) and music (The Kinks, The Beatles, Pink Floyd plus tons more). Along the way literature, pop culture and history are thrown into a blender but handled with the most capable and deft hands because the writing, the writing, is simply brilliant. Funny, ecstatic, generous and quite literally unlike anything I've ever read before, THE INVENTED PART is a warm-hearted journey through a brilliant imagination and what a novel is capable of doing.
Catherynne M. Valente is back with her signature haunting prose and raging characters! Beginning as a tale of one woman's marriage, Comfort Me With Apples quickly tilts into a bone-chilling horror story softened only by Valente's lush, fantastical world. This story will not bring you comfort. It comes with teeth and claws to swallow you whole.
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If you're in the mood for a dark, gruesome tale for spooky season, look no further than The Death of Jane Lawrence. What begins as a marriage of convenience between Jane and the town doctor quickly morphs into a sinister, gothic horror story about power, magic, desire, and all the ways we can be haunted by the past.
A combination of classic women’s fiction (Think: Jacqueline Susanne’s VALLEY OF THE DOLLS or Mary McCarthy’s THE GROUP), Fiona Davis’s debut novel is a Sundayafternoon pleasure read—that delightful sweet spot between guilty pleasure and social commentary. Okay, maybe that’s just my reading sweet spot, but this one’s a page turner and you really need to grab a copy as soon as possible. I’m a sucker for anything set in New York City, and DOLLHOUSE takes place in New York’s famous Barbizon Hotel for Women. The novel alternates between the 1950s when ‘career women’ and models lived there as they searched for success and husbands and current day when aspiring journalist Rose Lewin, now living in the turned-condo Barbizon, begins to dig into a mystery and scandal and murder concerning some of the hotel’s past residents, a handful of whom still live on the fourth floor in rent controlled apartments. So yeah. Dark secrets. Women constrained by time period and circumstances. And the Barbizon Hotel, which is a real place that once housed many famous women, including actresses Candice Bergen, Grace Kelly, Joan Crawford, and ill-fated author Sylvia Plath, who stayed there during her stint at Mademoiselle Magazine. I mean, seriously, how can you not pick up this book?
Dune by Frank Herbert is an absolute science fiction classic. The scope and scale of the story is immense and it has inspired countless works of science fiction. Trust me, you will never forget your first trip to Arrakis!
A fun look behind the scenes of some of the most iconic movies of the 80's. McCarthy is a surprisingly good writer - check out his travel writing!
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-- Langston Hughes